Registration number: 13152864 (England & Wales)

Automated Building & Energy Controls (Holdings) Ltd.

Contents

Company Information	1
Strategic Report	2
Directors' Report	3
Statement of Directors' Responsibilities	4
Independent Auditor's Report	5 to 7
Profit and Loss Account	8
Balance Sheet	9
Statement of Changes in Equity	10
Notes to the Financial Statements	11 to 14

Automated Building & Energy Controls (Holdings) Ltd.

Company Information

Directors

M Litten M Morrall A Shaw

Registered office

7 Miller Court Severn Drive Tewkesbury Business Park Tewkesbury Gloucestershire GL20 8DN

Auditors

Hazlewoods LLP Staverton Court Staverton Cheltenham GL51 0UX

Automated Building & Energy Controls (Holdings) Ltd.

Strategic Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

The directors present their strategic report for the year ended 31 March 2026.

Principal Activity
The principal activity of the company is that of being an intermediate holding company.

Fair review of the business

Given the nature of the business, the company’s directors are of the opinion that analysis using key performance indicators is not necessary for an understanding of the company’s development, performance, and position of the business. The directors also note that the results of the group are consolidated at the Acorn Top Co Limited level and a strategic report is presented within those financial statements.

At 31 March 2026, the company had net assets of £7,226,270 (2025 - £7,226,270). The directors consider the performance and position for the year and the financial position at the year end to be satisfactory.

Principal risks and uncertainties

The company's principal risk relates to the potential impairment of the value of its investment in subsidiaries.

Approved by the Board on 30 September 2026 and signed on its behalf by:

A Shaw
Chief Financial Officer

Automated Building & Energy Controls (Holdings) Ltd.

Directors' Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2026.

Directors of the company

The directors who held office during the year were as follows:

M Litten

M Morrall

P Morrall (ceased 5 June 2025)

A Shaw

Principal activity

The principal activity of the company is that of an intermediate holding company.

Going concern

The directors have assessed the company's ability to continue as a going concern and consider it appropriate to prepare the financial statements on that basis.

Information included in the Strategic Report

The business's environment and risks, together with details of monitoring undertaken by the directors are dealt with elsewhere in the strategic report.

Financial instruments

The company's financial instruments comprise amounts due from and due to group undertakings. The directors consider exposure to credit risk and liquidity risk to be low due to the nature of these balances and the financial strength of the wider group

Disclosure of information to the auditors

Each director has taken steps that they ought to have taken as a director in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditors are aware of that information. The directors confirm that there is no relevant information that they know of and of which they know the auditors are unaware.

Approved by the Board on 30 September 2026 and signed on its behalf by:

A Shaw
Chief Financial Officer

Automated Building & Energy Controls (Holdings) Ltd.

Statement of Directors' Responsibilities

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for preparing the Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:

•	select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;

•	make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

•	state whether applicable United Kingdom Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and

•	prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.

The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Automated Building & Energy Controls (Holdings) Ltd.

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Automated Building & Energy Controls (Holdings) Ltd.

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Automated Building & Energy Controls (Holdings) Ltd. (the 'company') for the year ended 31 March 2026, which comprise the Profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet, Statement of Changes in Equity, and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

•	give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 March 2026 and of its results for the year then ended;
•	have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
•	have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the auditor responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the original financial statements were authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinion on other matter prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

•	the information given in the Strategic Report and Directors' Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and

•	the Strategic Report and Directors' Report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of our knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Strategic Report and the Directors' Report.

Automated Building & Energy Controls (Holdings) Ltd.

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Automated Building & Energy Controls (Holdings) Ltd.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

•	adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
•	the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
•	certain disclosures of directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or
•	we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

Responsibilities of directors

As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors' Responsibilities set out on page 4, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor Responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below.

We considered the nature of the company's industry and its control environment and reviewed the company's documentation of their policies and procedures relating to fraud and compliance with laws and regulations. We also enquired of management about their own identification and assessment of the risks of irregularities.

We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework that the company operates in and identified the key laws and regulations that had a direct effect on the determination of material amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, including the UK Companies Act and tax legislation, and, those that do not have a direct effect on the financial statements but compliance with which may be fundamental to the company's ability to operate or to avoid a material penalty.

We discussed among the audit engagement team regarding the opportunities and incentives that may exist within the organisation for fraud and how and where fraud might occur in the financial statements.

Automated Building & Energy Controls (Holdings) Ltd.

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Automated Building & Energy Controls (Holdings) Ltd.

The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

In common with all audits under ISAs (UK), we are also required to perform specific procedures to respond to the risk of management override of controls. In addressing the risk of fraud through management override of controls, we tested the appropriateness of journal entries and other adjustments; assessed whether the judgements made in accounting estimates are indicative of a potential bias; and evaluated the business rationale of any significant transactions that are unusual or outside the normal course of business.

In addition to the above, our procedures to respond to the risks identified included the following:

• reviewing financial statement disclosures by testing to supporting documentation to assess compliance with provisions of relevant laws and regulations described as having a direct effect on the financial statements;

• performing analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships that may indicate risks of material misstatements due to fraud;

• enquiring of management concerning actual and potential litigation and claims and instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations; and

• reading minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.

Our audit procedures were designed to respond to risks of material misstatement in the financial statements, recognising that the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment by, for example, forgery, misrepresentations or through collusion. There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures performed and the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we are to become aware of it.

A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Use of this report
This report is made solely to the company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Scott Lawrence (Senior Statutory Auditor)
For and on behalf of Hazlewoods LLP, Statutory Auditor

Staverton Court
Staverton
Cheltenham
GL51 0UX

30 September 2026

Automated Building & Energy Controls (Holdings) Ltd.

Profit and Loss Account for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

	Note	2026 £	2025 £
Turnover		-	-
Gross profit/(loss)		-	-
Operating profit/(loss)		-	-
Other interest receivable and similar income		-	109,633
Profit before tax		-	109,633
Profit for the financial year		-	109,633

The above results were derived from continuing operations.

The company has no recognised gains or losses for the year other than the results above.

Automated Building & Energy Controls (Holdings) Ltd.

(Registration number: 13152864)
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2026

	Note	2026 £	2025 £
Fixed assets
Investments	4	7,245,190	7,245,190
Current assets
Debtors	5	206,268	181,268
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year	6	(225,188)	(200,188)
Net current liabilities		(18,920)	(18,920)
Net assets		7,226,270	7,226,270
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital		7,200,000	7,200,000
Retained earnings		26,270	26,270
Shareholders' funds		7,226,270	7,226,270

Approved and authorised by the Board on 30 September 2026 and signed on its behalf by:
 

A Shaw
Chief Financial Officer

Automated Building & Energy Controls (Holdings) Ltd.

Statement of Changes in Equity for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

	Share capital £	Retained earnings £	Total £
At 1 April 2025	7,200,000	26,270	7,226,270
At 31 March 2026	7,200,000	26,270	7,226,270